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...Americans is going to be aware of negative stereotypes of black Americans as not being middle class or highly educated or high-income, although that’s not true at all,” she says. “People who are at Harvard, who are very highly accomplished, and facing very successful careers would want to counter that stereotype…they’re saying ‘we’ve arrived.’”However, the BSA also works on giving a voice to the black community outside of Harvard...
Difficult to accomplish? Not really, says Roger Bhalla, the director of HP's Worldwide Notebook Supply Chain Strategy and a Conversant graduate. A 40-person project to overhaul factories in six countries generated a 100-fold return on investment, he reports. Before he attended the horse program, though, "it was highly probable that the project would have stalled, based on disagreements in the team," he recalls...
...decides the next two years are about revenge, or about governing--and whether she can keep her troops in line. "They listen to no one," she told TIME earlier this year. "They don't even listen to each other." Pelosi's initial goals, which she says she wants to accomplish in the Democrats' first 100 legislative hours in power, are modest and relatively uncontroversial. She would have the House pass bills aimed at raising the minimum wage, cutting student-loan interest rates, allowing the Federal Government to negotiate directly with pharmaceutical companies for lower drug prices for Medicare patients...
...marked by tribalist tendencies, hampering their willingness to collaborate with each other and with the University’s professional schools. Harvard’s research and scholarship add invaluably to the greater knowledge, skills, and decision-making of mankind, but in many cases individual departments and schools can accomplish more through interdisciplinary efforts. Already, we see some fruits of efforts to cross-pollinate the University. The Harvard Stem Cell Institute, the growing Broad Institute for genomics research, and the Harvard Initiative for Global Health have already begun to (or soon will) provide a forum for development and exchange that...
...Leavitt was racing around the country to educate them on the benefit and solve problems with enrollment, as well as "jump-starting" community programs to prepare for a possible flu pandemic. "The use of leased aircraft," she argues, "was the most effective - and often the only - way to accomplish these important national priorities within the compacted time frame available...